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take survey and bring results to class on 4-14-10

SENSORY Learning Styles - person's preferred method of RECEIVING information


3 styles
I. Visual = see it
II. Auditory = hear it
III. Kinesthetic = touch or experience it


THINKING STYLES

preferred method for processing input=


Carl Jung - 4 psychological types


A. Feeling - emotion is key
B. Intuition - abstract processing
C. Sensing - 5 senses, concrete doing
D. Thinking - logical, analytical


Kolb - thinking styles


A. Activist - prefers doing things with others, cooperative learning (what can we do to help out with the problem)
B. Pragmatist - need a practical application, a good reason (ask student why it is important to be on time)
C. Reflective - need time to think about content (needs time to think about the problem)
D. Theorist - likes to adapt input to existing theory, or likes to develop own theory (what theory would explain why this student is late to class)


CHARACTERISTICS of styles
Converger -
Diverger - needs time to reflect and step away from experience, see more concrete examples

Assimilator - abstract, needs time to assimilate
Accomodator - concrete experience, active


UnaffiliatedStyles


Global - abstract
Sequential - concrete



EXPRESSION STYLE - preferred method for expression


Multiple Intelligences - Gardner - everybody is capable of each of the 8 to some degree barring some physiological barrier

different kinds of "smarts"

8 ways
1. interpersonal - smart about people
2. intrapersonal - smart about self
3. spatial/visual - visual relationships/distances
4. mathematical/logical - data, numbers
5. musical -
6. naturalistic - how things are interrelated with nature
7. linguistic -
8. kinesthetic/bodily




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